Cheryl Schatz

gengwall #140,

Cheryl – do you believe Eve was sinless after she left the garden?

The Bible doesn’t say whether she ever sinned again or not. We do know that a sinless person can choose to sin eitherwise neither Adam or Eve could have sinned in the first place. But the sin nature that Adam had is a propensity to sin, not just an ability to sin. Eve did not inherit that sin nature and nothing in the text said that she had a nature of rebellion. That is really what I am keying in on. The discussion is the texts at hand and what Eve did afterwards is speculation. While none of us can choose to not sin and just decide to never sin again since our since nature causes us to fail even good intentions, I believe that Eve was able to choose not to sin.

Does this help to answer your question?